This is one of those "D-m-d if you Do", "D-m-d if you don't" when it comes to mining activities. I guess someday when its really to late, 1/2 of Kentucky will wake up and realize where the drinking water comes from. The North, South, Middle Fork of the Kentucky & Levisa & Tug of the Big Sandy is the water supply for everything downstream all the way to the Ohio, and that is a lot of cities & towns in Kentucky.


I get really upset every time I have to pay $750 to set a public water meter, knowing the water wells I had as youngster was prefect until mining destroyed the underground water tables. My childhood home well, is nothing but red water now.

All can I do is pay up when I need water & to set another meter, then pay a water bill each month whether I use it or not. Compliments of coal mining !! and the non existent regulations governing the way it is mined/damage done to the area.

Kentucky's largest NATURAL resource is WATER, its going to cost to clean it up as it is needed. Like toxic waste dumps in other areas, the taxpayer always end up paying to clean up what others leave behind.
Its all just one BIG ENDLESS CYCLE, companies think the taxes & local jobs they supply during their operations, justifies their actions. Then ALL taxpayers pay to correct the damage done.

I don't want to seem to be picking on companies, the people who have homes with straight pipes, dumping tires/trash in our waterways are just as bad.

There's something we all need to think of often, Our children/grand children will inherit the environment we leave behind. I think we all should try our best to leave this old earth just a little cleaner than we found it.

Very Well said old friend